Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas

Maya Feile Tomes received her MA, MPhil and, in 2017, PhD degrees in Classics from King’s College, Cambridge. She is currently Teaching Associate in Colonial Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies in the Spanish & Portuguese Section, University of Cambridge.Adam J. Goldwyn received his PhD in Comparative Literature from City University of New York in 2010. He is Associate Professor of English at North Dakota State University and the author of Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance.Matthew Duquès received his PhD in English from Vanderbilt University in 2013. He has taught at Vanderbilt, North Dakota State University, and the University of North Alabama, where he received tenure in 2019.William M. Barton, Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha, Michael Brumbaugh, Artur Costrino, Matthew Duquès, Maya Feile Tomes, John T. Gilmore, Adam J. Goldwyn, Andrew Laird, David A. Lupher, Jean-Nicolas Mailloux, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Ivy Schweitzer, Nicole A. Spigner, Joanne van der Woude, Zachary Yuzwa

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Synecdoche in Reverse: America’s Transhemispheric ClassicsMaya Feile Tomes1 Utopia Writes Back: José Manuel Peramás on the Limits of RepublicanismMichael Brumbaugh2 Degenerating the Classical Canon in Brazil: Bernardo Guimarães’s Ovidian A Origem do Mênstruo [‘The Origin of Menstruation’] (1875)Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha3 Heaven and Hell: Classical Rhetoric and Courtly Wit in Early Modern Brazil – The Case of Gregório de MatosArtur Costrino4 La Primera Parte del Parnaso Antártico [‘The First Part of the Antarctic Parnassus’]: Print and the Politics of Translation in Early Peruvian PoetryJoanne van der Woude5 Justaque cupidine lucri ardentes [‘Burning with a Just Desire for Gain’]: A Barbadian Poet Celebrates the Peace of UtrechtJohn T. Gilmore6 Lucianic Dialogues in Colonial Santo Domingo: The Historical Miscellany of Luis Joseph PegueroDan-el Padilla Peralta7 Nahua Latinists: Classical Learning and Indigenous Legacies in Sixteenth-Century MexicoAndrew Laird8 Romans in Spain and Britain as Models and Anti-Models for New World EncountersDavid A. Lupher9 A New England Underworld: The Necropolitics and Necropoetics of Katabasis in the Anarchiad (1786–87) and Mock Epics of the Early U.S. RepublicAdam J. Goldwyn10 “Familiar Commerce”: The Classical Origins of John Winthrop’s “Modell” of American AffiliationIvy Schweitzer11 Phillis Wheatley’s Niobean PoeticsNicole A. Spigner12 William Apess and the Athens of AmericaMatthew Duquès13 Beavers as the Bees of New France: The Beaver’s ‘Allegorical Turn’ in Father François Du Creux’s Historia CanadensisWilliam M. Barton and Jean-Nicolas Mailloux14 The Fall of Troy in Old Huronia: The Letters of Paul Ragueneau on the Destruction of Wendake, 1649–1651Zachary YuzwaIndex

''This new collection assembles fourteen essays focussing on how European classical learning was transmitted, resisted, and transformed in Ibero-American, Caribbean, American and Canadian areas between the sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries ... The collection is directed at advanced students and scholars working in the relevant cultural areas, and at classicists everywhere. Editor Maya Feile Tomes seeks to illuminate both the centring of an elite culture in New World writing and academic curricula, and the radical decentring it underwent.'' Germaine Warkentin, in BMCR 2022.07.19